“What you’re asking is impossible.”
“About as impossible as enchanters being enslaved by the Captain?” Gavin shook his head. “I think there are many things that are possible. You just have to have the right attitude about them.”
Chan glowered at him. “It might be best if you leave the city.”
“I’ll consider it,” Gavin said. “When all of this is stable.” He had no idea how long that would take, but he felt as if he had to stay now. The enchanters needed his protection. For now. They didn’t need an assassin, but there were other ways to use his skills. He had friends here now.
Wasn’t that enough?
“Just consider?”
“I need to ensure you aren’t going to continue what you’ve been doing. Once I’m satisfied with that, then you might find that I leave the city.”
“I might find that.”
“You might,” Gavin said, shrugging. “Or you might find that I continue to eliminate your constables. I think we both know how that will go.” He glanced back at the dozen or so constables behind him. “I could start now, if you would like.”
“I don’t think you’d find it as easy as you believe.”
“Are you sure? I’m certain I could change the dynamics in the city in a much different way. It wouldn’t be the first time I’ve done something like that.”
“No,” Chan said.
“Then you leave the enchanters alone.”
A hint of tension in his arms left Gavin thinking he might attack, but then he relaxed. “Fine. They are not to practice openly.”
“Have they been?”
Chan stared at him, and the blank expression gave Gavin the answer that he needed.
“Now I’m going to go, and I don’t expect to be followed. If I am, you’ll find yourself down several constables. Oh,” Gavin said, pausing as he backed down the street, “you will leave the Roasted Dragon alone.”
“And if I don’t?”
“The consequences will be the same.”
Chan continued to glare at him, and Gavin only shrugged, heading away.
Gavin was tired and needed to sleep, and he had to find a place where he could do so safely. Until he knew what Chan might do, the Dragon wasn’t going to be safe for him. Given what he’d done to the other enchanters and what he’d done with Gaspar, Desarra’s home wouldn’t be safe for him either.
His feet guided him to Cyran’s home. By the time he snuck inside and went down the trapdoor to the lair, he was exhausted. He used a hint of the core energy to pull the door open, and then he sealed it closed behind him. Once inside, he sank to the ground, resting just inside of the door and pulled out the egg to look at it.
All of this for the egg.
He’d been in the city too long. Longer than he had intended. Longer than he’d ever been in one place since leaving Tristan’s training. Now he didn’t know if he could leave yet. The enchanters needed him.
Here he had come to the city for work, looking for jobs that might have a level of danger but that would permit him a level of freedom. Instead, he found himself caught up in something different. Worse.
I might be the breaker of chains, but what chains are they?
Gavin couldn’t help but feel that the chains he’d broken inside of Yoran were around the entirety of the city. He had no idea if he had freed the people, or if he had unleashed something worse.
The next book in The Chain Breaker series: The Fates of Yoran.
When the Fates attack Yoran, the Chain Breaker must fight back.
After establishing an uneasy truce with the constables, Gavin has settled in Yoran to offer protection to his friends and the remaining magical element in the city.
When a job reveals a dangerous new threat in the city, Gavin must take action. This time the target isn’t Gavin, but the city itself. Magic was banished a generation ago, but the Fates have returned. They bring a dark magic Gavin has never seen before—and might be helpless to control.
It will take more than an assassin to stop the Fates.
It will take magic the Chain Breaker barely understands and can’t control.
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Series by D.K. Holmberg
The Dragonwalkers Series
The Dragonwalker
The Dragon Misfits
Elemental Warrior Series:
Elemental Academy
The Elemental Warrior
The Cloud Warrior Saga
The Endless War
The Dark Ability Series
The Shadow Accords
The Collector Chronicles
The Dark Ability
The Sighted Assassin
The Elder Stones Saga
The Lost Prophecy Series
The Teralin Sword
The Lost Prophecy
The Volatar Saga Series
The Volatar Saga
The Book of Maladies Series
The Book of Maladies
The Lost Garden Series
The Lost Garden
